Author Archive: Stephen Green
September 27, 2019
SNOWFLAKE NATION: Facebook Hiding ‘Like’ Counts so Wusses Don’t Get Their Feelings Hurt.
YES. To Hell with the Elites. “It’s time for the president to build a big, beautiful door in the wall of propaganda that papers over the actions of America’s ruling class. And make the Democrats pay for it.”
THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP: Senate Democrats Face Questions After Letter Resurfaces of Them Asking Ukraine to Investigate Trump in 2018.
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY: That’s Not the Camel’s Nose.
A Milton, FL couple, Gloria Lancaster, 68, and Edmond Lancaster, 73, were visiting the Tiger Truck Stop in Louisiana when their dog slipped his leash. The dog got into the truck stop’s camel enclosure — is this a Louisiana thing? — so Gloria, ignoring the warning signs, crawled under the barbed-wire fence to fetch her dog.
That’s when things got weird.
I really can’t give away anything more than that.
NATO: Russia is About to Get A Close Look at the F-35 Stealth Fighter.
Italian F-35As belonging to the Italian air force’s 13° Gruppo, 32° Stormo are on track to take over the air-policing mission in Iceland, David Cenciotti reported at The Aviationist on Sept. 25, 2019.
“The Italian aircraft, that have already deployed to Keflavik International Airport, from their homebase at Amendola air base in southeastern Italy, will start flying familiarisation sorties in the next few days,” Cenciotti wrote. “After achieving the NATO certification they will start quick-reaction alert duties.”
“The F-35s, were accompanied by a KC-767A tanker, a C-130J and a P-72A maritime patrol aircraft,” Cenciotti added, citing data from flight-tracking websites.
F-35s surely will become regular fixtures in NATO deployments.
Well, those stealth jets are going to get close, but I’m not sure how much of a look Moscow will get.
HMM: How The House Plans To Use Its ‘Inquiry’ To Instigate Impeachment.
Congress’s authority to request documents is dependent on whether it has a legitimate legislative purpose for the documents. The purpose of the House invoking the phrase “impeachment inquiry” is to create a pretext to argue in court that it has a right to the documents.
The White House brushed off many of Nadler’s requests in this May 15, 2019 letter denying the requests because Nadler had “not articulated any proper legislative purpose” for pursuing matters already investigated by Robert Mueller, for example. Because impeachment is one of the enumerated functions of the House, document requests relevant to an “impeachment inquiry” might be able to overcome this objection.
The strategy of declaring an “impeachment inquiry” actually has little or nothing to do with a serious effort to put a case in front of the Senate based upon existing wrongdoing. Rather, it calls to mind the technique used to snare so many victims of the get Trump movement: the process crime. Democrats want to force the president into defying a court order upholding a House document request in order to meet the Khanna test for a full-blown impeachment proceeding.
Impeachment was a scam from the start.
ON THIS DAY 80 YEARS AGO: Warsaw fell to German forces following a brief but awful siege.
BIDEN SAYS A LOT OF STUFF: Biden Accuses Trump of Trying to ‘Hijack an Election’ in Ukraine Call.
YEAH, BUT TRUMP SAID SOMETHING MEAN ABOUT SOMEBODY: World Yawns as U.S. Accuses Syria of Another Chemical Attack on Civilians.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Thank God It’s ICE (TGII) Edition. “The base who wanted action on border security will no doubt still turn out for Trump next year. Amid the incessant disruptive noise — this week it’s the Ukrainian impeachment nonsense — the border security issue remains a constant. Should Trump win re-election, the Democrats’ thorough awfulness on the issue will have done a lot to contribute to the effort.”
JOHN SOLOMON: These once-secret memos cast doubt on Joe Biden’s Ukraine story. “Hundreds of pages of never-released memos and documents — many from inside the American team helping Burisma to stave off its legal troubles — conflict with Biden’s narrative.”
More:
The memos raise troubling questions:
1.) If the Ukraine prosecutor’s firing involved only his alleged corruption and ineptitude, why did Burisma’s American legal team refer to those allegations as “false information?”
2.) If the firing had nothing to do with the Burisma case, as Biden has adamantly claimed, why would Burisma’s American lawyers contact the replacement prosecutor within hours of the termination and urgently seek a meeting in Ukraine to discuss the case?
Ukrainian prosecutors say they have tried to get this information to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) since the summer of 2018, fearing it might be evidence of possible violations of U.S. ethics laws.
More to come…
And here’s a link to the original document.
WITH BIDEN FADING AND WARREN UNPALATABLE TO WALL STREET…
Maybe her pitch will be, “Only Hillary can save the Democrats from the mess Hillary left them in.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Impeachment Just Another Means For Democrats To Rip The Country Apart.
Earlier this year, former Goldman Sachs adviser and columnist Ron Hart wrote in the Orange County Register about Democrats’ strategy “to fan the fires of racial division in order to win back the White House in 2020.”
While true, much more than 2020 is at stake. Democrats want an us-and-them country, one in which they alone have the raw political power. It’s a long-term strategy that has most prominently appeared in their gun-control efforts. Their objective isn’t to reduce firearm violence but to separate Americans into two groups: backward hicks bitterly clinging to their guns and urbane sophisticates who have evolved beyond that primitive state and therefore have standing to rule the hicks.
By segregating America into two parts — vile, retrograde deplorables who can’t be trusted, and educated, forward-looking progressives — Democrats are setting up a society in which they wouldn’t govern under constitutional limits but rule by political mandate.
Read the whole thing.
CHANGE: First gas station in America to ditch oil for 100% electric vehicle charging opens in Maryland.
The electricity magically manifests itself at the “pumps.”
IN SECRET THEY PROBABLY WOULD, WHICH SAYS FAR MORE ABOUT THEM THAN IT DOES ABOUT TRUMP: Former Romney Advisor Claims 30 GOP Senators Would Vote for Impeachment — in Secret.
September 26, 2019
BRAVE SIR ROBIN BRAVELY TURNED AND FLED: Pelosi Declines to Say if Trump Violated an Existing Law with Ukraine Phone Call.
POPCORN, ANYONE? Wall Street Warns Dems: No Donations if You Nominate Liz Warren.
BUT THE NARRATIVE! Not All Democrats Support Impeaching Trump.
Certainly not after today’s mess.